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Greenware lobed bowl in the form of a flower
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › China › Zhejiang province › Yue kiln-sites (place of creation)
- Date
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9th - 10th century AD (AD 801 - 1000)
Tang Dynasty (AD 618 - 907)
Five Dynasties Period (AD 907 - 960)
- Material and technique
- stoneware, thrown, with carved decoration under a green glaze; glazed base; glazed rim
- Dimensions
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3.8 cm (height)
14.2 cm (diameter)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Lent by the Sir Alan Barlow Collection Trust.
- Accession no.
- LI1301.356
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Further reading
University of Sussex, and Arts and Humanities Research Council, The Barlow Collection, supervised by Regina Krahl, Maurice Howard, and Aiden Leeves (Sussex: University of Sussex, 2006), no. C356
Glossary (2)
glaze, stoneware
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glaze
Vitreous coating applied to the surface of a ceramic to make it impermeable or for decorative effect.
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stoneware
Ceramic material made of clay which is fired to a temperature of c.1200-1300⁰c and is often buff or grey in colour.
Location
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- currently in research collection
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Publications online
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The Barlow Collection
The shallow flower-shaped bowl has rounded sides with five indents on the outside, and a flared mallow-shaped rim, cut into five double lobes. The flat centre inside is clearly marked, and the underside flattened, without a separate foot. The piece is undecorated and fully covered with a partly degraded, yellowish-green glaze, and was supported in the firing on a ring of bar-shaped supports, which left marks on the glazed base.
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